By Peter Oborne* – The Guardian Handing over the WikiLeaks founder to the US will benefit those around the world who want to evade scrutiny In the course of the next few days, Priti Patel will make the most important ruling on free speech made by any home secretary in recent…
By Hall Gardner* – Meer Toward a war of attrition? Or major power war? As I have been warning since at least 1994 that a Russia-Ukraine conflict leading a major power war was a real possibility,1 I would prefer not to warn again that the worse is yet to…
By Guy Hedgecoe – POLITICO The former ruler has spent years in self-imposed exile in Abu Dhabi — but now he’s coming back. MADRID — This weekend, things could get awkward in Spain. The former king, Juan Carlos I, who abdicated in 2014, returned home on Thursday evening after…
By Juan Cole – CounterPunch Before a hate-filled 18-year-old murdered 10 and wounded 3 African Americans in Buffalo on May 14, he penned a rambling screed about replacement theory. The most common version of this whiny idea, imported from the more hysterical fringes of the…
By PRASANTH RADHAKRISHNAN – Asia Times* For non-alignment to be effective, it cannot be restricted to transactional relationships or mere moral posturing In the first half of April, Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar made some revealing remarks at…
By Paul Mason – The New European Its misguided logic underpins the ideas of far right movements. Now, it’s started to influence the fringes of conservativism as well On May 14, Payton Gendron shot 10 fellow Americans, almost all of them black, in Buffalo, New York.
Analysis by Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest, including news from around the globe, interesting ideas, and opinions to know sent to your inbox every weekday. This is the first…
By George Yancy – Truthout. Pundits and politicos are busy running their mouths full-time in the wake of Saturday’s white supremacist attack in Buffalo.
Editorial – The Guardian Versions of ‘replacement theory’ are becoming dangerously close to mainstream in American politics According to a poll published in the United States earlier this month, one in three adults believes that an attempt is being made “to replace…
Ralph Nader* – Common Dreams The Robber Barons of old have nothing on this new class of digital oligarchs Ever since the heads of East India Trading Company (1600) and Hudson Bay Company (1670), were incorporated by English Royal charters, there have been corporate…
